It is possible to delete all the hidden threads (and inactive users) in one go using the clean-up add-on. If you're on v1.0 it's not yet updated, so hang on a little.
Not all of us has infinate mysql space or can go through phpmyadmin and find the post and remove it. I really dont see why a delete button is that controversial?
Ok, in Vanilla, let alone any message board, simply deleting something post/thread/user has the potential to completely break things. Hiding a post allows the post to remain, but in a hidden form until you decided to flush all hidden posts and threads from your forum. Deleting users would wreak havok upon vanilla as you would be killing random pieces of threads and whole threads that already existed and are tied to that user. When the cleanup extension is updated you'll have a fairly good way to clean out hidden discussions, the reason why you have to hide them first is so you don't stupidly just delete it on accident and go "oh no, how do I get that discussion back".
If you want to straight out delete, go through phpmyadmin or another type of database tool/helper and blindly delete the threads you want gone, then go back to vanilla and see if things are still remotely functional after doing so :)
Haha. Very true jazzman. I really fail to see how deleting a single thread is going to help so much with keeping database sizes to a minimum. Assuming all your threads are roughly equal in size (and furthermore that you wouldnt infact want to delete an enormous thread because it's probably quite useful) on this forum deleting a thread would cut the database size by less than 1/2500th. Are you really that desperate for space?
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Not all of us has infinate mysql space or can go through phpmyadmin and find the post and remove it. I really dont see why a delete button is that controversial?
(at this point it goes off topic)
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